Reasons to Switch to
Online Faxing
(If Getting Rid of Your Fax Machine Isn´t Reason Enough)

5Reasons to Switch
to Online Faxing
If Getting Rid of Your Fax Machine Isn’t Reason Enough
Online Faxing Saves Trees
Reduce the Use of Toxic Chemicals
Help Create New Tech Products
Eliminate Your Analog Fax Line
Simplify Your Business Tasks
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ONLINE FAXING
SAVES TREES1
10,000Number of pages of
standard copy paper the
average office worker
uses every year.
(Reduce.org)
42%Percentage that paper
accounts for among
the trees cut down
each year by industry.
(National Resources Defense Council)

REDUCE THE USE
OF TOXIC CHEMICALS
Paper mills are among the worst polluters of any
industry — releasing millions of tons of toxic chemicals
into the air during the papermaking process.
(Environmental Protection Agency)
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80%Percentage of the 2.25 million tons of electronics disposed in 2007
ended up in landfills.
All the gold, copper, silver, and other recyclable materials used in those
products could have been used to create tomorrow’s tech products.
(Environmental Protection Agency)
HELPS CREATE NEW
TECH PRODUCTS3

Recycling also reduces the
need to mine new materials
needed to make electronic
products
30-40x
One metric ton of circuit
boards, such as those found in
fax machines, can contain 30-40x
the amount of gold from one
metric ton of ore in the US.
(Environmental Protection Agency)

ELIMINATE YOUR
ANALOG FAX LINE
Cloud faxing
saves energy!
5xLandlines use 5x more energy than
that consumed by cell phones.
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
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4 Ways Online Faxing Simplifies
Your Business Tasks
Traditional paper faxes take up
storage space
Save time by signing faxes right on your
smartphone
Add notes to a fax directly on your
smartphone
Send a fax from the cloud
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SIMPLIFY YOUR
BUSINESS TASKS5

Traditional Paper Faxes
Take Up Storage Space
With eFax®, you have lifetime
cloud storage for your faxes.
Retrieve your secure faxes
online anytime.

SAVE TIME BY SIGNING
FAXES RIGHT ON
YOUR SMARTPHONE
Our fax app gives you 2
convenient ways to add a
electronic signature to your fax:
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DROP IN A
STORES PHOTO
OF YOUR SIGNATURE
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USE A FINGER TO TRACE
YOUR SIGNATURE RIGHT ON
THE SCREEN

Engage with your
team on the go...
Need to add a date
beside your signature?
Need to add a note to a
Contract for your team to review?

SEND A FAX
FROM THE
CLOUD
Pull documents straight
from your cloud storage
service, and send them
through the eFax app.

5Reasons to Switch
to Online Faxing
If Getting Rid of Your Fax Machine Isn’t Reason Enough
Online Faxing Saves Trees
Reduce the Use of Toxic Chemicals
Help Create New Tech Products
Eliminate Your Analog Fax Line
Simplify Your Business Tasks
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